KING in a Sentence

Learn KING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
296 example sentences for KING, such as:
1. 'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
2. What the king wills, that the law wills.
3. The king banished his wife from his bed.
4. It was like a king's canopy, a fairy king's.
5. We are going to treat you like a king today.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of KING
king
 n.  preeminence in a particular category or group or field
 n.  a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
2  It was like a king's canopy, a fairy king's.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  It was like being taken in state round the country of a magic king and queen and shown all the mysterious riches it contained.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Well, if they like it, Tom, all right; but I don't want to be a king and have only just a given name, like a nigger.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  So the duke and the king went to overhauling our wigwam, to see what the beds was like.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
6  Well, the duke allowed he would take my bed; but the king allowed he wouldn't.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
7  The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a light till we got a long ways below the town.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
8  The king got out an old ratty deck of cards after breakfast, and him and the duke played seven-up a while, five cents a game.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
9  So the duke he told him all about who Romeo was and who Juliet was, and said he was used to being Romeo, so the king could be Juliet.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
10  The king allowed he would go, too, and see if he couldn't strike something.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
11  The king got the directions, and allowed he'd go and work that camp-meeting for all it was worth, and I might go, too.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
12  So me and the king lit out for the camp-meeting.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
13  The king said, take it all around, it laid over any day he'd ever put in in the missionarying line.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
14  The duke was thinking he'd been doing pretty well till the king come to show up, but after that he didn't think so so much.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
15  The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
Example Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  The king decorated his official for ability.
2  They were accused of being privy to the plot against the king.
3  Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
4  In the final analysis, the king's power was greater than the bishop's.
5  The king banished his wife from his bed.
6  We are going to treat you like a king today.
7  He was made king as a result of various intrigues.
8  What the king wills, that the law wills.
9  By reorganizing the church hierarchy, the king was able to secure the appointment of men whom he personally favoured.
10  I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading.
11  There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self.
12  Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
13  The king has always had servants at his beck and call.
14  The king was visiting France as a private citizen.
15  Charles remained a close ally of the French king.